Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight performers (a chemistry teacher, a solicitor's clerk, a printer, a policeman, an Oxford undergraduate, a divinity teacher, a market gardener and a physicist) ate a big predawn breakfast at the King's Head Hotel and, at 4 a.m., climbed the squat red-brick campanile of Taylor's bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes...
...unusual for the old squire in the big house up on the hill to sell them off for a spot of ready cash. The 27 titles up for sale last week were part of a collection bought purely as investments in the 19th century by a shrewd old Essex solicitor named Joseph Beaumont...
...headed for the Supreme Court Building. On the way he suffered a heart attack. He drove to the nearby home of his secretary and, within minutes, Robert Houghwout Jackson was dead. In his 62 years he rose to eminence among lawyers, served with ability as U.S. Solicitor General and Attorney General, as Supreme Court Justice and as U.S. prosecutor at Nürnberg. When Jackson was named Attorney General, New Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs wrote: "If there is any single individual who represents all the qualities that commonly inhere in the term [New Dealer...
...position of Assistant Attorney General (while in that job, Jackson ardently supported President Roosevelt's effort to pack the Supreme Court), thence to Solicitor General and, in 1940, to Attorney General...
...basis. The state has asked permission to file a brief next month as a friend of the Supreme Court. Tennessee's brief is expected to suggest that schoolchildren be integrated gradually, beginning with the first grade and moving up through the grades as the years pass. Said State Solicitor General Allison B. Humphreys: "The question [of segregation] was settled by decision last May. We see no point in further arguing that issue." Meanwhile, Tennessee schools will stay segregated for this semester, at least...